A mandatory vaccination campaign aims to cover 90 per cent of the population in the fight against the outbreak.
Almost 90 per cent of eligible Samoans have been vaccinated against measles, prompting the government to lift a two-day curfew lifted following an outbreak that has recently killed 65 people.
The virus has infected almost 4500 people in the South Pacific nation of just 200,000 since late October. Of those who died, 57 were children aged under four. "The impacts of this emergency will be far reaching on Samoa and our people, particularly our young generations," Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said.
New Zealand and other countries and organisations including UNICEF have delivered thousands of vaccines and medical supplies and sent medical personnel to help.
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